Abstract: Driven by information technologies and AI, a smart media age is coming. Information distribution is becoming more intelligentized, shared and context-aware, while libraries, users and information will be reconnected and deeply interacted. Being the major force in promoting the nationwide reading, the public libraries are greeting a critical turning point for development and innovation. The operating mode, service and space of public libraries are being reshaped, while all the reformations and innovations should be user-oriented. To accomplish the shift from the libraries of “books” to the libraries of “users”, and to become a smarter “third space” of culture, public libraries need to offer intelligent, ubiquitous, and humanized services.

Key words:  , Media intelligentization, Public libraries, Intelligentized “third space” of culture